This is my first attempt at a complete scene using trueSpace. For a challenge I wanted to create
a realistic animal. I created the 3D cat mesh by converting a height map into a 3D object. I started
with a texture I made from a watercolor painting I created (see the "Jungle Cat"
in my 2D art album and the tutorial "How the Cat in 'Jungle Cat' was Created").
To make the 3D mesh I created a simple "cartoon cat" in trueSpace. I then converted the
cartoon cat object into a height map using trueSpace's Fog feature. I then used the warp feature in a 2D
morphing program to get the height map to exactly match my texture. Finally, I used a height map to object utility
to create the 3D mesh from the stretched height map. The whiskers were then added as separate meshes.